Anything, anything to break from the script for what is shaping up to be the most pointless, predictable Oscar night in living memory.
But Mike Brown, LU's managing director, described the latest strike as "cynical" adding: "Services are operating on virtually all lines this morning despite the pointless strike.
Therefore, delaying the review until just before opening night is pointless.
If they're not, it's absolutely pointless (as I learned alongside most people last night).
It was cheerful and pointless; it summed up the night.
"It's diverting, a little sad, a little boring, full of geeky macho posturing and ultimately pointless, much like a Wednesday afternoon in a comic-book shop".
But let's face it, if you're not blessed with supermodel looks, then dressing up in the Saturday night sense is pointless at a festival.
Less than an hour after the vote, the Senate majority leader, Harry Reid, Democrat of Nevada, went to the Senate floor and declared: "The bill passed by House Republicans tonight is a pointless partisan exercise.
The secrecy seemed a little pointless at 7 30 on Sunday morning, when most of the people gathered to watch the Streb performers bungee-jump off Millennium Bridge, in front of the Tate Modern, were journalists and photographers.
Yes, the Republicans were correct to laugh at one of the president's own gimmicks on Wednesday night: a symbolic and pointless spending "freeze".
